Leeds Rhinos coach Rohan Smith

Coach Rohan Smith comments on Leeds Rhinos' 30-24 home defeat by Huddersfield Giants.

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00:00 What went on? I thought it was a very strong first half. Probably didn't make the most

00:08 of it with a few more points I thought would have been worthy in that first half. I thought

00:14 we were clearly the stronger team and had to earn every bit of that sort of domination

00:22 I thought or maybe not domination but on the front foot and looking positive. I think we

00:27 had six line breaks in the first half. Second half we started a bit sketchy. We had two

00:37 outside backs injured struggling through the first half but they found a way. They started

00:44 the second half but they just weren't able to go on. Harry had a decent back spasm quite

00:52 early in the game after getting hit hard in the tackle and Foos has hurt his other knee.

00:59 I feel really rough for Foos. He's worked really hard to come back in good shape but

01:05 he's probably going to be missing for a little bit. They went off and then we found a couple

01:14 of tries to get the scoreboard back intact. I thought that was a fair reflection of the

01:21 game at least at that point. We had people playing out of position. We had a disjointed

01:29 couple of edges and just weren't able to scramble enough to get the ball back to be able to

01:38 push back the other way. 24-24 all, there's another huge goal that goes against us. When

01:49 a player lends weight behind the ball carrier that's held. But it wasn't and it led to a

01:59 dropout which we should have kept it long there but we shouldn't have had to keep a

02:06 dropout.

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